 Welcome to Adam Does Movies Live. Kind of an impromptu, meaning last minute, late in the game event we have going on here. This broke a day or two ago. But essentially, what has happened is some people spilled the tea over at Marvel to variety, I believe is the outlet that broke the story. There's a lot of shake ups. There's a lot of crazy stuff that's been going on at Marvel, MCU, Disney, whatever for the last couple of years. And now it's coming to the surface. And so of course, we're going to talk about it. I think a lot of people in at least maybe the older guys my age have been feeling a bit of the stagnant stagnation. That's not a right word, stagnant. Things have gotten a little boring with Marvel. If I was a better speaker, I could eloquently say that. But yeah, there's been some stagnation, stagnation going on over there. And I want to talk about it. I want to break down the variety article. So I thought I'd better get on this. Because thousands of people have already talked about it. So I have to be first to market. Already failed on that. But I think it's something that we can all share in and say, you know what? Maybe some of our concerns were actually legit. And they've been feeling some of the pain over there. I want to say hi to everyone. I appreciate you joining me. There's a lot of other options on the table. So I'm glad you're here with me. Like I've stated many times over, this is a one-man operation. I have a full-time job. I got a family. I got other things going on. So it means a lot that people actually tune in and listen to me ramble on. I feel like I'm the voice of some sort of sensible people out there still. And I appreciate that. And I really appreciate Superchats, which is always the name of the game for these live streams. So if you have a question you want to ask me, throw it in a Super Chat. If you have an opinion on Marvel, if you care at all anymore or don't care, throw it in a Super Chat. I feature you, give you a tip of the fictitious hat, and we move on with the stream. How's keeping? Pool update. You've been keeping up with what's going on. The neighbor is putting in a pool. It's a big deal. The whole neighborhood's up in arms over it. Well, not really. I signed elderly woman. I don't know her name. So I'm just going to call her Blanche. She was walking her dog and she said, do you see what's going on over there? I'm like, yeah, I live next door, bitch. That's my yard that's tore up right now from the pool going in. I see it. She's very excited. She thinks it's quite the bee's knees, as I suppose they say. They put cement in today. So there's a giant cement slab that goes from house to pool, tip to tip, fully ensconced in cement. No fence up yet. I'm a little concerned that the fence is basically going to make the side of my yard inaccessible because right now, it's basically like those old TV show cartoons where the neighbor puts a pie out on the window cell and you could just reach out and grab it. Just take that pie, eat it yourself. Thanks. Yeah, not so much anymore. If a fence goes in, I don't even know how I'm going to mow on the side of my yard. It's a sad situation, but we can move past the pool. It's coming along. It's coming along swimmingly. All right. Other thing before we get into the main topic, which is the MCU shit show. We had a trailer today that came out. I can't show it because YouTube will, of course, flag this for copyright ID, but I just want to say, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes dropped its first teaser trailer. I also want to point out, I love that teaser trailers, air quotes, are a minute and a half to two minutes long, sometimes longer. That used to be how long a trailer was. Now the teaser is long. It's hilarious. It's really freaking good. I really dig the Planet of the Apes movies, the original, of course, and some of those sequels, not so much the Tim Burton attempt, but the newer trilogy that I think started in 2011, 2012, I'm not sure when it started. Somewhere in that ballpark. Freaking gold. Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes, terrible naming conventions aside. These are really good movies. War was a letdown for me. I know a lot of people really loved it. Not so much myself, but the trilogy as a whole is really good. It's up there with some of the better ones. It doesn't get enough appreciation. I feel like people go to them, they love them, and then they just kind of quietly move on with their day. And then out of nowhere, a new one will drop like this one for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Taking off for the last one was, I mean, it looks like it jumps forward a few years, obviously it's got blue eyes in there leading now where his dad Caesar left off. I'm very pumped for this. I showed the trailer to my son Connor. He was freaking jaw dropped. It's hard to surprise people anymore because the title's up there, the description, a giant thumbnail, but I still try to surprise my kids with things they're interested in. My daughter's scared of monkeys and apes and gorillas and orangutans and everything from that ancestry. So she's not having anything to do with these movies. But I showed it to Connor and I like covered up the title and I covered up shit until it all went away from the screen. And the first thing he thought was, oh cool, a new King Kong. But then he saw that bird land on blue eyes, his arm, and he was just in heaven. He's like, oh my God, is this a new one? Like, yeah, we're back. Let's go. We're fired up. We're very excited for this. All right, is that enough? I think we can get into it. Let's get into the main event. Let me bring her up. Let me bring it up. There it, nope, that's not the right one. There it is. Okay, variety I think is the ones responsible for this. So the headline is very, right to the point, very hyperbolic, crisis at Marvel. Jonathan Majors backup plans. The Marvel reshoots, the reviving original Avengers and more issues revealed. Let's dig in. I'm not gonna read this all verbatim. I'm gonna skim a lot of it, but there is a lot here and I do wanna present it properly. This past September, a group of Marvel creatives, including studio chief Kevin Feige, Kevin Feige, Kevin Feige, whatever we wanna call him will change it, assembled in Palm Springs for the studio's annual retreat. Most years, the vibe would have been confident, even cocky, given how the premiere superhero brand owned by Disney since 2009 has remade the entertainment business in its image. Let's unpack that as professionals say. Let's unpack it, okay. What's that mean? The premiere superhero brand has changed the business since 2009. Well, it's simple. Iron Man was a huge hit. Captain America did pretty good numbers for how mediocre the movie was. Everything that would continue to come out from henceforth would be even bigger of a smash hit. They were starting to churn out freaking sea list characters in my humble opinion, sea list characters like the Guardians of the Galaxy, put them up with like freaking Batman in terms of hype and quality. Disney and Marvel were freaking doing it. Mainly Marvel, when Disney wasn't there early on. It was a Marvel thing with Iron Man and the Incredible Hulk. Not a big fan of that, but I know some people like it. Regardless, there was a template that was being produced. After so many films, it was obvious what that template was. They were getting a lot of crap about a conveyor belt type of feel. I was saying it, but these movies had consistency. They had a level of quality. They had a level of seriousness about them that drew in lots of people. Kids were going to these films, grandpas were going to these films. It was just pulling everyone in. And that would surely change as more and more characters are introduced over the course of this run, five phases in now. And we will get there, but this is a... So anyway, setting the stage, other studios were looking at these guys, Warner Brothers, doing the DC thing. They got Batman, they got Flash, they got Wonder Woman. They got all the big ones, right? So like, well, if Marvel can do it, we can do it. So they tried to build their universe. We saw the pathetic attempt at a dark universe where Tom Cruise led the charge with the mummy. One of his rare elves that he's had lately, but that was a terrible movie. And then it's just completely killed off right out of the gates. They just gave up on all of it instantly. And this would have happened with a few others. The monster verse with King Kong and Godzilla. That one's still, I think, going. That's still doing something. But we saw what the template was, what the playbook was that was driving droves of people to the theater. And that's what they mean by that. But this occasion was angst-ridden, I'm continuing in the article. Everyone at Marvel was reeling from a series of disappointments on screen, a legal scandal involving one of its biggest stars in questions about the viability of the studio's ambitious strategy to extend the brand beyond movies into streaming, which is a big problem we'll get into too. The most pressing issue to be discussed at the retreat was what to do about Jonathan Majors, the actor who had been poised to carry the next phase of Marvel Cinematic Universe, but instead is headed to a high-profile trial in New York later this month on domestic violence charges. Woo! Yeah, this isn't a good situation. He was fine. As Kang the Conqueror, I saw him in Loki at the end, I think. Didn't leave much of an impression, to be honest. And he was in that terrible Ant-Man quantum shittia, as I call it. Awful film, top-to-bottom awful film. He was fine in it. He's no Thanos. He's no Loki. Hell, he's no, he's no, I can't even think of any other villains than the MCU. Ultron, he's no Ultron, I don't know. The MCU hasn't been great with the villains. That's more of a DC strength. That's more of a DC thing. Well, at least with Joker and Bane. I was born in the shadows. You were merely adopted. I miss Bane voice when everybody was just doing that. First, I break your back when I break your soul. And after my men turn Gotham to ash, then you have my permission to die. Not verbatim, of course, not verbatim. All right, the actor insists, the actor insists he is the victim, but the damage to his reputation, short for reputation, has been done. Yeah, this is a problem, whether he's innocent or not. He's scarred for life now. This is gonna be a scarlet letter on him and I don't, he's gonna be a toxic brand. That's a problem, it's all about marketing. My thought on all of it is, let the courts decide all that stuff. I'm of the, I grew up in an environment where you don't put yourself in situations that can come back and bite you in the ass. So I don't go out clubbing. Of course, I've been happily married for many years. I have that luxury, I guess. I don't cheat on my wife. My wife and I do everything together. We don't get ourselves into precarious situations where someday a woman's gonna turn and say, Adam from Adam Does Movies, that guy's a piece of shit. He was on the strip a few weeks ago. He got loaded. He did some sketchy stuff. He said some stuff, no, no, I am what I am. I'm the genuine article out here in YouTube. And then I get off and I have my sad life where I yell at my kids and get insulted by my wife. And that's the American dream. All right, I continue on. At the gathering in Palm Springs, executives discussed backup plans, including pivoting to another comic book adversary like Dr. Doom, Dr. Doom Solid. I always wanted power. Still my favorite thing from the Fantastic Four movie from Fox, not the scrapped one, the one that also had the rise of Silver Surfer. The dude from Nip Tuck is Dr. Doom. And I love the exchange where he says, all I want is power. He says it's so bizarre. My favorite. Okay, but making any shift would carry its own headache. Majors was already a big presence in the MCU, including as the scene stealing antagonist in February's Ant-Man and the Wasp on Demated. He wasn't stealing any scenes, okay? The ants had more presence than anyone else in that movie. Let's move past this for a little bit. Oh, this is great. Marvel is truly fucked with the whole Kang angle, says one top dealmaker who has seen the final Loki episode and they haven't had an opportunity to rewrite until very recently because of the WGA strike. Let me take a break. And you know, it's funny I've been ranting and raving for a long time and I'm not even sure if my audio is working, but it must be because people seem to be in the chat saying stuff. All right, I'm looking only at super chat. So again, if you have a super chat, say it there or forever hold your peace. We have one shot out of a cannon by Master Sergeant for a powerful $10. Kingdom of the apes looks to skip through time and present a story akin to the original first apes film. Movie, he said, I said that wrong. Yeah, there's definitely a time jump, but obviously we're seeing some of the characters from the original, you know, the last trilogy. So it's not like it jumped 50 years into the future. You know, these apes don't live for hundreds of years. They're still living ape ages. So yeah, there's maybe a five year jump, 10 year jump. I'm willing to give you a 15, but more than that, I don't think so. I'm hoping we're gonna get a new trilogy here and it's going to end at essentially the, they blew it up sort of a thing from the original Planet of the apes. We're gonna lead right into that original classic. That would be great. Because it was teased in the first Planet of the apes. I'm completely off though, Master Sergeant. I should have probably checked the super chat when we were talking about Planet of the apes. Not your fault, that's my fault. Let's get back to Marvel. Thank you, Master Sergeant for the super chat. Powerful stuff. All right, beyond the bad press majors, beyond the bad press for majors, the brain trust at Marvel is also grappling with the November release, the Marvels. Ooh, it's gonna get real sexy real quick here. A sequel to 2019's blockbuster Captain Marvel that has been plagued with lengthy reshoots and now appears likely to underwhelm at the box office. Yeah, the first movie, Captain Marvel, not terrible, not good, it's just mediocre. Some people might love it, some people might like it, some people hate it. That's, they're all opinions. They're all, I think valid in their own ways. One thing's for damn sure. It didn't make a billion dollars because it was Captain Marvel and it looked amazing. It made a billion dollars because it was wedged between two of the most prominent films in Marvel Cinematic Universe history. That's Infinity War and Endgame. You basically were required to watch Captain Marvel if you wanted to get the truly satisfying conclusion to something that's culminated over several phases because we were told that Captain Marvel would be appearing in Endgame. I think it was also teased in the end credits of Infinity War. Nick Fury was on his blackberry or whatever the fuck. Maybe that was, it doesn't matter, I'm crossing everything. But the MCU was at its highest point. It's at its peak right now, it's at its crescendo. And so yeah, Captain Marvel was never gonna fail. I think they could have sold tickets to a two-hour movie of literal shit being dropped into a toilet. As long as it was branded part of the MCU, people were gonna see it just to know who shit is that? Is it belong to Thanos or someone else, someone even more sinister? We have to go find out. Her being the first female-led superhero for Marvel in the current generation. Yeah, okay, fine. Brie Larson was likable at the time for many. I don't mind Brie Larson. At the time, she was Oscar award-winning actress, done some nerd stuff in the past, like Community, like Scott Pilgrim versus The World. So she had good pedigree. This thing just had everything going for it. But now that everybody's seen it, now that we know that Captain Marvel is probably the lamest superhero ever created ever, right up there with Blankman, right up there with Meteor Man, I don't see this one. Doing very well. Even when you include some of the other Disney plus characters, I have a sneeze coming on. I don't know if I can push through it. Maybe I embrace it. Damn it, it's not gonna come. It's gonna stay on the edge. It's gonna just sit on the edge. Oh, I hate that. Let's go on with the article. This is all an unprecedented turn of fortune for a company that's enjoyed a nearly uninterrupted string of hits ever since it started with the independently produced 2008 Iron Man. Wildly profitable, culminating in 2.8 billion across all their platforms to 2019. Oh wait, wait, wait, wait, let me reread that. That wildly profitable run culminated in the 2.8 billion success of 2019's Avengers Endgame. Yeah, a high watermark for the studio indeed. Indeed. This property has earned 30 billion in over 32 films. That's pretty good. I mean, I think that's pretty good. Replicating that kind of phenomenon is never easy. However, the source of Marvel's current troubles can be traced back to 2020. That's when the COVID pandemic ushered in a mandate to help boost Disney stock prices with the endless torrent of interconnected Marvel content. Yeah, here we go. Here we go. Let's brush past some of this. The Marvel machine was pumping out a lot of content. Did it get to the point where there was just too much and they were burning people out on superheroes? It's possible, says Wall Street analyst, Eric Handler, who covers Disney. The more you do, the tougher it is to maintain quality. They tried experimenting with breaking in some new characters like Shang-Chi and Eternals with mixed results, with budgets as big as these, you need home runs. This is a paid Wall Street analyst, Eric Handler. It probably makes quadruple my salary in a year, Eric Handler. And the best he can muster up is, it's possible they burned some people out with the endless amount of superhero shit they were producing. Disney slash the MCU, went from producing two or three movies a year for the first couple of phases to seven, eight, nine another year to 14, 15, 16, 20. I mean, it got out of control. And not only that, people were expected to not just watch the movies and the sequels, they had to watch the Disney plus shows, which mean they had to have a Disney plus membership, which mean they had to know when these shows were on and how they interlaid with the MCU as a whole because they're not all sequels. Some of them are prequels. Some of them are sidequels. Some of them are alternative universes. Some of them don't seem like they're part of it until they are. Between WandaVision, which was required viewing just to even know what the hell was going on and Dr. Strange into the multiverse of mass, one of the worst narrative disasters ever. And yeah, it's a fine, fun movie, sure. Surface level, it's okay. I like Sam Raimi a lot, but narratively speaking, it's insane to take a character like Wanda, who's been in what? Four or five movies, Richard Pryor to the TV show and then to just out of nowhere, turn her into a villain. If you didn't watch the show, she's just straight up a villain and you don't know why. I watched the show and I still don't understand why. I know she got the dark hold. I know it corrupted her, but we barely saw that. In the show, it's the final shot of the whole series. She's floating looking through the book. You're like, okay, it's gonna corrupt her. We're gonna have this fascinating turn. No, that's all off camera. That's all done behind the scenes. Terrible. And then we have the Marvels coming out and it's even another layer to that. You have to have known about Monica Rambeau in WandaVision. You have to know about Miss Marvel, I think, the girl Kamala Khan from whatever that's called. Miss Marvel, I forgot. There's so many. There's Miss Marvel, there's Loki season one and two. There's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. or whatever the fuck that thing's called. I think that was a different show actually on a different network. Disney Plus has something like that with Nick Fury. Secret Wars, nope, that's a movie coming out. I don't know. There's probably eight shows. You got Hawkeye. You've got Moon Knight. Not to be confused with the Moon and Knights, which are characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force and they're far better. I love the Moon and Knights. Let's keep going though. My point is there's too much content. I'm a movie person. I talk about this stuff all the time and I can't even keep heads and tails of it anymore. And I also don't give a shit. I didn't watch the Nick Fury show. I did watch She-Hulk and that's why I didn't watch the Nick Fury show because She-Hulk was so stupid. It was so bad I couldn't even get mad at it. I was like, okay, this is just a dumb, pointless Saturday morning cartoon. Like not one of the good ones though. Like one of the bad ones that's on. You wanna watch X-Men but there's a rerun of Life with Louie or whatever that shitty show was called that I had to watch. Or that terrible Sonic cartoon. Not the well animated one, the really badly animated one. How did that show go on for more than one season? I'll never know. And why was there a robot chicken as one of the main characters? Gotta move past it. All right. The Marvels, which opens in theaters on November 10th will struggle to get the ball past the infield. At least by Marvel's outside standards. The movie, which costs 250 million, sees Brie Larson reprising her role as Captain Marvel is tracking to open to $75 to $80 million. Far below the 185 million Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness took in domestically. Yikes, that is not good. Your first weekend out is your biggest week, almost every single time, 99% of the time. You're making your big chunk of money, your first three to five days out on market and then it's a big drop off. I find it so funny now when all these different articles come out week after week saying, Sonic the Hedgehog too. Why am I going back to Sonic? Sonic too dropped 50% in its second week or Aquaman dropped 37% in its second week. There's always a huge drop off. People that are excited go out and see it that opening weekend. Then there's just a small to pretty hefty, I mean drop within your whole month. It's not like it's gonna keep rising up unless it's freaking avatar. It's rare when something doesn't drop 30 or 40%. So to see that this is tracking at 80 million, oof, that means the next week it's only likely to pull in maybe another 50 million. And then after that, you're gonna see a substantial drop. So this thing is gonna be lucky if it gets to the 400 million ballpark. I think that's at the high end. Yikes. Let's see if we got more super chats, just one right now, because people are just so enthralled with my dialogue, I guess. Life is good, just a round of applause for $10. Thank you, life is good, I appreciate that. Those are my favorite super chats. All right, let's continue the article. Directed by Nia D'Costa or Nia D'Costa, that's fine. The Marvels unites Larson's heroine with two superhero allies, Monica Rambo and Kamala Khan. Yep, yep, I already settled this shit. There's reshoots, four weeks of reshoots. That's pretty impressive. Eyebrows were raised again when D'Costa began working on another film while the Marvels was still in post-production. Okay, I mean, if she's sought after and it's post-production, I'm not sure why that's that big of a deal, but I'm not in that industry, I guess. If you're directing a $250 million movie, it's kind of weird for the director to leave with a few months to go, so as a source familiar with the production. From what I've gathered over the many, many years we've gone over Marvel shit, it doesn't sound like the directors, even the highest kind of caliber ones like Edgar Wright or even Sam Raimi, have a lot to say at the end of the day what's gonna happen. Kevin Feige, Fijette is the guy that's making a lot of moves, making a lot of calls. There's probably a few other up-higher dogs that are like, yep, you took us where we needed you to, we're gonna take it from here. We're gonna add in the Easter eggs, we're gonna add in a bunch of CG bullshit, and we'll make the rest of the story work. And so yeah, it doesn't surprise me that this director is moving on. She's probably burned out by the time this movie's even winding down and wants to get to something a little smaller scale, a little bit more comfortable. Because also a lot of these directors aren't necessarily green screen directors, and that's pretty much what all the Marvel movies have turned into. They're just green screen movies and it's depressing. Digital backgrounds, nothing seems real anymore. And people will say, well, Adam, how do you expect them to build a quantum realm in Ant-Man and the Wasp? I don't expect them to build a quantum realm, I expect them to do a little thing called use sets. They used to be a big thing back in the 90s and they actually worked really well. You can build some amazing set pieces and really take people into that world. And then you can layer special effects on top of the set pieces so that our characters are actually interacting with a fucking wall or floor. There are scenes in Ant-Man and the Wasp where the ground is fake. There's tons of scenes like that in Thor, Love and Thunder. They're just walking on, everything's green, everything's a stage, and they have to animate in dirt. They have to animate sky. Like nothing is real, which is one of the many reasons why people are not connecting with these movies at all anymore. Let's continue on with the article. The Marvels has seen its release date move back twice, once to swap places with Quantum Shidia, which was deemed further along. And again, when its debut shifted from July to November to give the filmmakers more time to tinker. But that extra time didn't necessarily help. In June, Marvel, which traditionally only solicits feedback from Disney employees and their friends and families, took the uncharacteristic step of holding a public test screening in Texas. The audience gave the film middling reviews. I'm not sure Texas is the right audience for the woke agenda. Oh man, is that still being said, the go woke or broke? Barbie might have stopped that. But Marvel has never been in the business of being average. Kevin's real superpower, his genius, has always been in post-production and getting his hands on movies and making sure they finish strongly. These days, he's spread thin. Feige declined to comment. Yeah, shocking. He doesn't have time. He's whipping those animators. He's like, we gotta get this done. Look, we'll cut it forever, motherfucker! Feige isn't the only person showing signs of strain. Marvel's entire VFX battalion. And I like that word, I like the use of that, including staffers and vendors is struggling to keep pace with the never-ending stream of productions. This past February, when the credits rolled at the world premiere of Quantum Shidia, shock rippled through the Regency Village Theater in Westwood, okay. Over some shoddy CGI. There were at least 10 scenes where the visual effects had been added at the last minute and were out of focus as a veteran power broker who was there. What? I imagine as the movies being shown, they have like two dudes chained to their desks, to their computer laptops, and it's just feeding directly into the movie. They're only working 20 minutes ahead of where the movie's at for the audience. And they're like on the fly, trying to animate a cape. Like, oh, he's like, I don't have the time. Put another fucking ants in there. Just get another ants in there. Ah! Everything's just, they're freaking out. And as it's showing up, they're sweating and fissures there with a stopwatch. I'd just be good. I like visually, I said stopwatch, but I looked at my wrists like it's a regular watch. A lot of stuff going on. Oh my gosh, shot out of a cannon, a bunch of super chats came in. I don't know what happened. I'm gonna take a drink of soda while I process. I need a break. Oh my God, I'm running, running hot. Christian Thacker for $1.99 thanks as always Christian. I don't even know if it can pull 80 million. Oh, I think it'll do 80 million Christian. I think that's an easy number to hit. Maybe not in this first week, if that's what you're implying, but over the course of its entire theatrical run, yeah, it'll hit. I mean, I would be shocked if it didn't at least get 400 million. And that would be insane if it couldn't crack 400 million. Then again, you know, a lot of moms and kids spent their theater money on Barbie and the Taylor Swift concert. So they might be like, yeah, we're done going to the movies for a while. This fucking trip, just to go to Taylor Swift, the concert movie was $21 a person. So Karen and her two girls and their best friend, I mean, they dropped easily $100 between the tickets and the food and snacks. Food and snacks is redundant, but you know what I mean. Joseph Blasco. Joseph became a YouTube member, folks. Thank you, Joseph. I really appreciate that. If you don't know what a YouTube membership is, it's really easy. First off, one man army over here, do this all on my own. YouTube has different tier offerings, same with Patreon, which I'm also on. It's pretty sad actually how little membership I have. I should probably be marketing it even more than I am, but there's a $1 tier. There's a $10 tier on both YouTube and at patreon.com slash Adam does movies. And with it comes perks. One such perk is the access to 300 exclusive videos that I've made over the years that aren't necessarily even movie related. I do rants on getting sick, not getting a straw at the drive through, Buffalo Wild Wings not releasing the wing count. I mean, these are top mind, top tier rants that everybody should be talking about and they're not. I'm the only one that's out there doing it. So you can see those at any of the tier levels that's available to you. If you become a myth roll member, you get to pick out a movie for me to roast the shit out of. And if you haven't seen my movie roasts, I highly suggest you watch them. There's a playlist and their goal. Thank you, Joseph. I appreciate that. Christian's back, $1.99. Oh no, he already saw that one. Wait, did he do it twice or did I just click the wrong one? I don't know if it can pull 80 million. Don't know if it can make 80 million opening weekend. Okay, he's clarifying. Yeah, that's fair, Christian. That's a more substantiated number, I think, that we could find out. I think that could bear some fruit. That dog could hunt. Avenger 29 for $4.99, gorgeous super chat. Were you excited for the future of Marvel after Endgame or did you know that it was going to be all downhill from there? Honestly, Avenger 29, thank you for asking. That's a great question. I didn't really have any stake in any of it. I take the movies kind of case by case basis. So I didn't have the massive hype a lot of people did for Infinity War and Endgame. Honestly, when Infinity War came out, I was excited for it for sure, especially with Thor Ragnarok really kicking ass, in my opinion, I love that movie. And so I was going in very hog wild. And the kids and I who went, we freaking loved Infinity War. I love that movie. I think that it was, it's still the best MCU movie hands down. And after that, I was really pumped. I was, that was the first time I felt like I was high on the MCU, like a lot of other fans already were. Because there's a lot of MCU related movies that I just don't care for that much. Like Thor one and two perfectly fine mediocre films, Ant-Man one and two fine, like they're all watchable and just kind of meh movies. I don't put them any better or worse really than Captain Marvel as far as those films I said, they're all kind of in the same boat to me, just like serviceable, watchable, just like 90s schlocky action movies were, that's how this was. But that underlying piece, the Thanos thing with the end game, huge saga to come and all these characters coming together in a culmination, that finally hit me after Infinity War. I was like, fricking me, this is awesome. And then Endgame of course was a fan service fast. It was very fun movie, has a lot of problems. But as far as my movie going experience, it was fantastic. It was very good. I haven't really needed to watch it again since, I don't have any desire to watch that movie again because I know it would just bother me more than anything else with some of the holes and some of the decisions made. But it was an amazing experience. And I really don't think it's gonna happen ever again. So yeah, after the snap, after Endgame, I was actually kind of excited to see what they would bring forth next. And then as movies kept coming out, I just kept getting like more and more bummed out and just kind of back to where I was. And then I dropped down completely. And I guess I can talk about this now quickly, but my big problem with the MCU is not what a lot of people say is the big problem. Or this is just my thoughts, of course. They don't have to be right. But a lot of people say the MCU sucks now because the movies are trash and the quality's down. And they're doing too much. Now, a lot of that's subjective outside of the doing too much. They are doing too much. They're doing different things. And the early MCU was darker and grittier and more adult, even when they had silly stuff, like Guardians of the Galaxy. If you go back and watch Guardians of the Galaxy, it's still pretty dark and gritty. And it's serious. It takes itself serious. And they felt like films. They felt like movies with competent directors who were actually trying to tell a good story and bring forth some interesting dynamic with characters. When I watch Marvel movies now, I don't get any of that. They truly feel like something we criticized Marvel for a decade back, which is conveyor belt movies. These are products now. They don't have any film to them. There's no edge to them. They are just so manicured. So, I don't know how else to say it. They feel disingenuous. They feel cheap. And they're certainly not for me. And it's not because they're trying other things. Like, listen, the Marvel's coming out. It looks like a movie that's aimed towards maybe younger kids, specifically maybe more towards the female audience, seeing some of these strong girls, women, fight bad guys, cool, good luck with that. I mean, from my experience, it doesn't usually work out. Young boys are just straight up sexist. That's just by nature how they are. My son Connor wants nothing to do with the Marvel's, even though I've told him time and time again, girls can do anything boys can do. They're great, respect everyone, treat everyone equally. There's just something douchey about boys. And a lot of them take a very long time to hit a mature point where they're like, and some never do, by the way, where they're like, yeah, I could watch a girl kick the shit out of someone and that would be fun. And not have that thing in the back of their mind, like, this is implausible. This girl could never do this. This girl could never do that. Like, have you watched a John Wick movie? You're telling me Keanu Reeves, who is 50 or 60, is flipping 500 dudes around in the air? I mean, come on. At some point it's just for fun, right? But there's a lot of boys that just don't give a shit about that. So when you see movies like The Sandlot 2 where it follows the girls, that one didn't do so well. Not so much. There's just some genres where just leave it to the boys, I guess, if you really want to get the bang for your buck, Disney. And Disney is going the other way around. That was announced years ago where Kevin comes down and he's like, there's gonna be just as many female action heroes as there are men. And then you collectively heard all the neckbeards online go, no! But in their whining, there's truth to it. Because the neckbeards know there's a lot of guys and younger kids that are going to be like, no, I don't want to watch a girl do this. And I think Disney's starting to feel some of that as well. I really do. Daniel Faw for $2, thank you. Daniel says, Adam, you should do a list of worst Marvel movies. Captain Marvel, obviously at the bottom. Now, I think I've done it a couple of times. And I always say this, lists are so stupid to me because I change my own mind often. I don't go from like, this movie's great to this movie blows, but there's a lot of nuance. There's a lot of changing of some of the positioning over years. So maybe in one of my lists from a couple of years ago, I'd say the Incredible Hulk is the worst MCU movie. Now maybe it's the second worst MCU movie, right? But the shift isn't very much. It's not very dramatic. And I don't even stand by my list. So at the end of the day, I guess it's just an excuse to talk about these movies more than actually put them in an appropriate order for myself. But yeah, the Incredible Hulk probably is, honestly to be fair, one of the bottom ones. Captain America, the first one, I never liked First Avenger. I thought it was kind of just schlocky and hokey. Even if it's intentional, it doesn't work for me. But yeah, we could revisit it. You know what? We could do a live stream on it sometime. If I haven't, I'm starting to blur and blank on some of the movies I've done on this. It's possible I did an MCU ranking not that long ago and I've just forgotten. Thank you, Daniel. Appreciate that. I'm gonna hide that. I got a couple more in here. I'm not even done with this article yet. This is awesome. Thank you guys. Joseph Blascoe's back baby with $10 more hailed to the most fabulously awkward entertainment YouTuber. Thank you, Joseph. Oh, you must be talking about someone else because I'm not awkward at all. I'm super comfortable. Super comfortable. I like the dog, by the way. I like the pit bull. Hopefully that's not a photo of his mom or something. I just insulted her. Life is good. Gifted five Adam Does Movie memberships? Is this on YouTube you can do this? I didn't even know you could do that. Or is this a Twitch thing? I am streaming simultaneously here and on Twitch, although I never actually checked to see if I'm live on Twitch or if anybody's even watching me over there at Adam Does Movies. It's a new thing I started doing because I used to play games over on Twitch, you know, a few days a week, years ago, and I just kind of let that channel die. But now that StreamYard gives me the ability to multi-stream, I'm like, let's get it going. Some people have Amazon subscriptions and they don't realize they get a free subscription on Twitch. So if you go to twitch.tv and you find Adam Does Movies on there, you can just say, hey, subscribe to this guy. And then Jeff Bezos doesn't get your subscription every month, it goes to me. And then I get like, you know, three bucks out of the five. So that's good, you know. Or maybe you just want to give Jeff another yacht and that's fine too. Okay, Joseph Blasco $5 Super Chat back again. Joseph's kind of the unsung hero tonight. Late to the party, have you seen the Shogun trailer? I have not. Let's move on. Shogun, isn't that an anime in my Shogun trailer? I'll just look it up, I'm not gonna watch it now. What is Shogun an anime or am I losing my mind? I mean, Shogun just probably means something that I'm not aware of because I know I've heard that word before. I have not seen the Shogun trailer. I will try to remember to check it out. Joseph, if you want message me on the Discord, Adam Does Movies or you can put a comment in on this YouTube live video just so that I remember to look at that because I forget everything pretty much instantly. Okay, Mikey C with a $5 Gorgeous Super Chat. Hire Anton, oh God, he's gonna make me pronounce a name. I don't know. Hire Antion Fokwa? Hire Anton, can't say the name. Equalizer he put in parentheses to Helm Blade. Cast Denzel as a mentor figure. Go with the mid-budget, let it be rated R. Don't hold back what's to lose. I agree with you on the rated R. I don't actually, I've never seen any of the Equalizer movies. They just never seemed like anything that would've, they seemed like kind of generic action films. I'm kind of past that point. I need something a little bit more substantive. I don't know why you don't just bring Snipes back to be honest. I think Wesley Snipes probably still in great shape, looks great, he can act, he fucking owned it as Blade. Bring Snipes back, make it rated R and just have some fun with it. We owe it to Snipes to give him one more good Blade movie because Blade Trinity was this shit show. It's a shit show. But I like where your head's at, Mikey. I, you gotta make Blade R. There's no if fans or butts about it. It's like Deadpool. Is that Mikey or Mickey? Now that I'm looking back. M-I-C-K-E-Y, it's Mickey. Mickey my friend. I apologize, I was calling you Mikey because I just can't read. Last Super Chat right now, I mean, let's keep this party going. Dark Room Review is $3, it's just a Super Sticker. Just, he has nothing to say. He just wants to give a sticker of appreciation. I appreciate that Dark Room. Let's get back to this article. I hope I got everyone on here. Let me scroll back up one more time to make sure. Uh-huh, uh-huh, skittity. Okay, I think we're good. The schedule swap with the Marbles had left the Ant-Man sequel in a squeeze, pushing up its post-production schedule by four and a half months. Marvel films are known for coming down to the wire, given Faizies, I'm gonna keep saying that differently just for fun, ability to foam the runway and land a plane that way. Foam the runway and land a plane that way? What the hell does that even mean? Meaning like crash the plane into like a nice gentle foam cushion. I've never heard that term before or foam it like literal foam that it can see from the sky. Let's keep going. But this level of unfinished was unprecedented. Again, with the unprecedented, you can't use that word more than once in an article and would be noted in scathing reviews when the tent pole with $200 million budget opened 11 days. The reason, listen, VFX is hardly a reason to destroy a movie. That's just a small gripe. There's tons of older movies that have garbage CG now, but they're still pretty fun movies. If you got a good story, that can save pretty much everything else. An ant man in the wasp quantum shittier didn't. It didn't have a good story. The acting was atrocious by some of the characters, the supporting actress that they got to replace Cassie or Casey, whatever the fuck her name is, was terrible. She's probably a very lovely actress and she's probably good at other things. The two things I've seen her in, she sucks. Ant man in the wasp and Detective Pikachu. In that movie, she seemed like she was in an entirely different film from everyone else. Let's go again. The year 2023 was the straw that broke the camel's back. It says former Marvel Studios VFX assistant coordinator Anna George who appeared before the Congressional Labor Caucus on October 19th to testify about the studio's untainable deadlines. The pay and long hours at Marvel were the reason we had to start our unionization process here. The conditions were completely unsustainable. Disney's top brass, including newly returned CEO, Bob Iger was said to be apoplectic about Marvel's VFX troubles. One month after Quantum Shiddyup premiered Debacle, the guillotine fell on Victoria Alonso who oversaw the studio's physical production. So Blame's going around, okay, blah, blah, blah. We're gonna move on. But some internal sources suggest Alonso was a scapegoat and points to She-Hulk VFX issues as a symptom of a deeper rot. Oh yeah, the She-Hulk thing. I think each episode of She-Hulk was like 25 million or something. That's an insane amount of money for a freaking Disney Plus 30 minute show. I think the show's actually like 25 minutes and then there's five or six minutes of end credits. That's the funniest thing. If you watch the Disney Plus shows, every single one of them's like this. The show will be said to be 15 minutes long. It'll be 10 minutes long with five full minutes of credits. There's these little short I am Groot videos. They're called shorts. I remember when they had trailers for these, they marketed them as full blown TV shows. I think there's four or five of these dumb things. They are seriously three minutes long with like six minutes of credits. The credits are patting out the runtimes so badly because they just want to, I don't know what it is, if it's a mind thing they're like, look at, this is an eight minute show. But in actuality, it's like two because people don't want to watch something that short. That's ridiculous. You can't make like TikToks for Disney Plus. It's dumb. Okay. The so-called bad VFX we see in She-Hulk, this is, was half baked because of the scripts, says one person involved. That is not Victoria. That is Kevin and even above Kevin, those issues should be addressed in pre-production. The timeline is not allowing the Marvel executives to sit with the material. All the while, Marvel was bleeding money with a single episode of She-Hulk costing some 25 million. I said that. I said that. There are signs that the flood of production, I'm sorry, that the flood of product is leading people to tune out. I'm not prepared to call it a permanent fall, but based on the numbers that go with Marvel podcasts, Marvel-based articles, friends who do Marvel-based video coverage, all of these numbers are significantly down, says Joanna Robinson. Yeah? I mean, again, you swan-songed. I guess more appropriately, you also sun-setted all of your prominent Avengers. This is like Iron Man, dead. Black Widow, dead. Guardians of the Galaxy, broken up. But even before that, even before that, Gamora's dead, right? So they're broken up. Thor, I would argue dead. What we have now is a shadow of his former glory. This guy's a full-blown cartoon. So no one cares about Thor. He's a stupid punchline now. So dead. Captain America, old and dead, I think? I think he's dead. I don't know. Maybe he's old as shit. And yeah, those are your prominent characters. Oh yeah, and Hawkeye, almost dead in real life because of a tragic thing that happened. But he's also gone, replaced by a younger actress. Your entire roster of cool characters are gone. That's like having an X-Men franchise with no Wolverine, no Cyclops, no Storm, no fucking Rogue, no Gambit. All you're left with is Patrick Stewart, who's a thousand years old, who I still love and is awesome. But he's showing up in random Doctor Strange movies. And then who are we gonna focus on? Iceman? Pyro? Some third string characters? No, that's like DC killing off Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman. Oh, I guess they did. But they're gonna reboot those guys. They're rebooting those guys. They're not just saying, we're gonna keep going on without them. That's chaotic. That's a catastrophe. And as cool as some of the new characters are, like Shang-Chi or Shang-Chi, I like him. I like him. Or, okay, I like Shang-Chi. That's about it. Yeah, it's just, it doesn't work. And then to not have that connecting tissue, that villain that shows up every once in a while, he pops up, he's like, oh, I'll see you guys next time. I'll get you next time, Avengers. King's not interesting like that. He's not a cool antagonist like that. And yeah, and it sounds like he might not ever be. I don't know. Don't know what they're doing. They're gonna recast? That's a mistake. As public criticism mounts, Faridag is pulling the plug on scripts and projects that aren't working. Case in point, the blade reboot with, I never say this guy's name, Mahershala Ali. I don't know. Signed on for the role of a vampire. Things look promising for a 2023 release date, but the project has gone through at least five writers, two directors, and one shutdown six weeks before production. One person familiar with the script says the story at one point morphed into a narrative led by women and filled with life lessons. Oh, God, what are you doing to yourself? What are you people doing to yourselves? Oh, my God. Oh, Amid reports that Ali was ready to exit over script issues. Faizh went back to the drawing board and hired Michael Green, the Oscar-nominated writer of Logan to start anew. Well, there you go. Maybe. This is just me now. This is never gonna happen. But man, wouldn't it be cool to have a Logan-esque blade film with Wesley Snipes, R-rated, one last ride? Doesn't have to have any connection to the MCU. You know, for all the shit that the DCEU gets, now DCU, whatever. At least they have the, I don't even know what you wanna say. I wanna say Cajones, but I guess, at least they have the balls to do standalone stuff still. They will have their trainwreck of a DCU, but they will also have a joker thrown into the mix once in a while or the Batman. And neither of those are connected. They're just standalone cool things that are building up their own brands in universe. I think Marvel could take a page from that and not make everything connected, but instead just make a damn good movie again. That would be a fun change of pace. What do we got? What's left? Okay, speculation around town is that the studio is looking to make the film now slated for 2025 on a budget of less than 100 million. That's honestly smart. These budgets are insanely out of control and a big reason for them are the amount of VFX work you're doing. Why does a Blade movie have to cost $200 million? It shouldn't. The dude's got a sword and a kick-ass attitude. Give us practical effects. Give us great vampire makeup. I just don't, when Disney said they were gonna do Blade, not a single part of me was like, oh, yay. No. Disney's not known for doing all-rated anything. And so to take a cool character like that and completely like Mickey Mousewash him, no thanks. With Eiger publicly acknowledging the downside of a Marvel TV glut that diluted focus and attention, the keepers of the comic book empire are considering some dramatic moves. Sources say there have been talks to bring back the original gang for an Avengers movie. This would include reviving Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man and Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow, both of whom were killed off in Endgame. Oh my God. Of course they're going to. This is what I, I mean, they're making my point for me. I said this, what, 20 minutes back. The reason these movies aren't doing well is because the OGs are all dead. And so, yeah, of course they're gonna dust off their bones and bring them back. Oh, we have the multiverse. It's a different variant. Or when Wanda died, she tore open a fabric and it brought in this character. And that's the real Robert Downey. That's the one we like. He was somehow resurrected. Or, oh, when the quantumania world was torn asunder by the ants, it made it so that these characters can come back again through the quantum realm. Or when Spider-Man was crying that his kids could get, that his friends couldn't get into the college they wanted and had Dr. Strange do some fucking radical spell that could be cataclysmic, that also altered these characters in their back. Like there's a lot of stupid ass ways they can bring them back. That was the big concern I had when the multiverse stuff started coming out. Will that solve Marvel's major problems? When the quantumania actor was arrested in March, oh, major's problem. No, yeah, Disney executives insisted that they could afford to play a wait-and-see game given the Avengers. The Kang dynasty wasn't expected to begin shooting until early 2024, but then major's was dropped in quick succession by his public assistant manager. Hmm, okay. A studio source notes that regardless of the actor's legal issues, Marvel already had considered moving away from a major's lead phase because of the box-off performance of quantum shittier. It gave people pause. Yeah, I would imagine so. Recasting majors is also an option as Fio Aiji did when he replaced Terence Howard in Iron Man 2. Yeah, okay. No, that's not an option, folks. That is not an option. It's stupid, and they're not gonna do that. Still, there was one bright spot. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, which became Marvel's biggest draw of the year with 845 million. Yeah, of course, James Gunn. He's a competent director who gets to see his vision clearly and thoroughly thought out and brought to the big screen. They don't interfere with his shit. The fact that it was directed by James Gunn, the guy now running Rival DC Studios was lost on no one. Yeah, I'm sure it wasn't. With Marvel, it used to be as close to a guarantee as you could get. Says Paul Durga, a box-office analyst at ComScore. That's a thing. So going all in on the budget made sense. Who are these people? Who are all these analysts? Can I get a job as an analyst? It seems like the easiest shit you could possibly do, given the things they say. Well, yeah, it doesn't surprise me that Guardians 3 did so well. James Gunn's at the helm. He makes banger after banger. It's the third installment to a lovely franchise that everybody likes and adores. It also helps that it's the original cast that hasn't been killed off yet. That certainly helps. The key to reinvigorating Marvel may lie with the superhero arsenal that Disney acquired during the 2019 purchase of 21st Century Fox. The deal brought several blue chip heroes. Never heard the word, what does blue chip mean? Such as the X-Men and the Fantastic Four back under the studio's control. Already fans are geeking out about next year's Deadpool 3, which reunites Ryan Reynolds, Merc with the Mouth with Hugh Jackman. Yeah, yep, yep. Uh, writing the Marvel obituary would be ill-advised, says Jason Squire, professor, a bunch of words. Host of the movie business podcast. Kevin Feege is the Babe Ruth of movie executives. And Marvel has the most profitable track record in movie history. No question. Well, let me take a drink of this and then we'll go to some super chats. That was a lot of information. That was a lot of reading for me. And I was already parched coming in because I had read a half hour to my son of Aragon book too. That's a slow burn, let me tell you. The second Aragon book, oof. My least favorite of the four of the Inheritance Cycle. Still good, but just, man, it's a slow burn. Okay, we have Joseph Blasco for $5. He's back, baby. He's been doing it. I'm a bibliophile. Shogun is a series coming on FX based on one of the best novels ever. I don't know a bibliophile. What's a bibliophile? Bibliophile? The hell are you getting me into? A person who collects or has a great love of books. Oh, I've never heard that term in my life. I would be what you would consider a booba file. Unfortunately, I've only collected two pair. Okay, we have Joseph Blasco gifting five Adam Does Movies memberships. Joseph, what is going on? Sir, thank you very much. Joseph's shot out of a cannon today, and I love it. Mickey, my friend, $5 Super Chat. The issue with New Marvel is we don't know why the heroes want to be heroes. We don't even know who they are. Powers plus costume doesn't equal compelling. I don't disagree. Yeah, I mean, take Ant-Man and the Wasp, for instance. Casey, who's changed actresses three times now, at least. She's just this fun, loving girl who's already in an Ant-Man costume. She just like was gifted or something. She's a genius like her dad has no struggles. Goes to the quantum realm very easily for her to do everything. She's already a superhero fighting and dodging, ducking and weaving and doings. She might clumsy up a tiny bit, but yeah, they're just thrown in now and kind of just do whatever they want. And again, it has to do with stakes. It has to do with the realism, which they're in front of green screens. So we already know they're playing pretend. I don't want to know my actors are playing pretend. I want to be lost in their worlds, and they're not convincing anymore. Thank you, Mickey. Jamil Camillo, I'm gonna say that's the name. $5 Super Chat, Blade needs some strong female leads. And for the MCU, Blade Trinity gave us a strong female lead in the form of Jessica Beale. Not great. And she looked great, but not a great movie. Thank you, oh, and he says, love your content. Thank you, sir. I appreciate that. I love you and all Super Chatters. Joseph's back for $5. Vodka plus Adam Does Movies equals, I spent too much last night. MCU needs to focus on anti-universe good movies to stand on their own, hell yes. Give us good stand-alones. I don't think Kevin, with all of his infinite wisdom, really thought for a second that Iron Man was gonna lead to this insanity we have today. You know, the puppet master Kevin Feej. I mean, Robert Downey first off, and John Fabra, they're the real champions here. They're the reason that the MCU even exists. Kevin, sure, maybe he had something to do with like adding Nick Fury into a cameo at the end of some of these movies, but I mean, holy shit, if you don't have Downey Jr. delivering, you don't have Kevin with great direction. I'm sorry, not Kevin. John, Fabra with great direction, you don't have anything in the MCU. And they were not set out to make a multi-tiered film. They were set out to make one kick-ass movie, and that's what Iron Man one was. And then Iron Man two is what happens when you set out to make a bunch of movies. And that's why I don't really like Iron Man two. I think it's a shit show. And Iron Man three pulls it back in again. I know people don't like that because of the Mandarin, you know, hoodwink, but I thought the movie was good from just a story perspective. I like that it was character-focused again. It wasn't concerned with building up three other movies. And so I agree. Let's just get back to the basics. Let's get down to business. And one final Joseph Blasco for $2 worth it for the bublophile joke. I mean, the channel's Adam Does Movies, you know? Everything's about that. Everything's sexual. Everything is about sex. What was that? I hate the later seasons of The Office. I just, I think they're terrible. Everything really passed five for me as a train wreck with occasionally some decent stuff. But James Spader, who's also the voice of Ultron to bring it back to Marvel. Then again, everything goes back to Marvel now. He's a boss for a while. And one of the things he says, which is so weird is he's like, everything's about sex. Everything comes down to it. And he's just so bizarre with his mannerisms the way he says things. This is bizarre. What a weird show it turned into at the end there. All right, if you guys have any more questions, comments, concerns, let me know with the super chat. Otherwise I'm willing to shut it down here in a little bit. Any announcements I have, I will bring to you right now. Upcoming videos. Tomorrow I will be live streaming again, but it will be a gaming sesh if I get it working. We tried it last Friday, just a grill and chill, a hangout with my weighing out, not really, but I played some of the new Marvel's Spider-Man 2 on the PS5, Humble Bragg. People have PS5s now. There was a time when you could say, oh, I got a PS5 and there'd be people on the streets like, well, how did you get one? How did you get one? Elon Musk is like, I need a PS5, you son of a bitch. And I'll be like, sorry, Elon. Guess money can't buy you everything. Now he's got 50 of them. But at a time it was worth, it had some pedigree. Anyway, last Friday I played some Marvel's Spider-Man, we chatted movies. It was just a decent little chill, but I couldn't get the streaming audio and my voice going at the same time. It was a disaster. I'm still putzing with it. I'm still trying to make it work, but that'll be tomorrow night, hopefully. I do have a roast in progress for Matrix Resurrections or whatever that fourth abortion of a movie was called. It's gonna be a fun roast. I'm sure it's gonna push 30 minutes because that's a long movie and I have a lot to say and I have a lot of jokes to be had. Next week we will do a Captain Marvel roast. If you are a Mithril member and you wanna claim that roast as your own, if you wanna be the producer on a roast, let me know, fire out a discord, fire out a, like I don't give a shit. Somehow let me know on Patreon or on Discord or whatever you would need to do. Just say, Adam, I'm a Mithril member. I haven't had a roast in a while or I wanna be the one that you shout out for Captain Marvel next week when you roast it because we have the Marvels coming out next Thursday or Friday. I will review that, of course. My kids do not wanna see it. I've tried hyping it up to both my 14-year-old daughter and my 11-year-old son because I don't really like going to movies by myself. It's just not that fun, but I've been doing it a lot more lately because my kids just don't care about any of this crap. They're smarter than I am already. But I'm like, look at Olivia, there's a girl kicking ass. Olivia's like, yeah, no, no thanks. I'm like, all right, well, whatever. So look forward to that. Outside of those announcements, I'm not sure if I have anything else major. Oh, my script. I am writing a movie script. It's an action comedy. Some people were concerned when I said I was making a comedy. It's an action comedy, emphasis on action, but it's very much kind of playing off like a Zoolander and Austin Powers, something in that vein with a little bit of a Sandlot Goonies feel to it as well. That's 45 minutes completed now. I have 45 minutes of actual movie length if we're going by the adage that one page equals one minute of screen time. I feel like some of my action scenes can push a lot more than a minute of screen time. I should just be able to say in the script, action scene, and then just four blank pages or 10 blank pages, but you can't do that, I guess. Am I having fun making it, whether it goes anywhere or not, I mean, I know it's like winning the lottery to get a movie made, but I'm staying very optimistic and I'm very confident in what I'm making. So I'm very excited for that and I'll share more as I get the movie done and I get to start pitching it around or whatever the hell the next step is, I'm excited. So that's some of the stuff I've been doing. We do have one more super chat, which is perfect way to end the night. That ugly guy for 9.99 says, thank you, that ugly guy. Thoughts on Toby and Hugh being the supposed main leads of Secret Wars. I know it might be a nostalgia bait, but it's definitely a childhood dream of mine if done right, will be pretty sick. I remember years ago, they asked Hugh Jackman, you know, this was before Fox was actually bought by Disney if he would do an Avengers movie, if there was like this dream thing. And he said 100%, it was like a big thing for him. He wanted to be an Avenger with Iron Man and all these guys. Do I think it'll happen now? I kind of do, honestly. We know Hugh's back, he's doing Wolverine with Deadpool 3. Patrick Stewart's already cameoed again as Professor X, even though they said years ago they were both done with the characters. And yes, it's multiverse, so they can spin it and say, well, these aren't the same guys, they're different variants, whatever the bullshit is. The bottom line is, if you're an actor and you're making really good money and you're playing a character that is beloved by millions of people and you're still relatively in good shape, Hugh Jackman's in fucking great shape or he can get back in a great shape, it's like a no brainer regardless of how good Logan was. And I love Logan, I think it went out on the highest note possible and I love how they ended these characters. Them coming back, putting on their costumes, making easy money, making kids happy, making adults happy, that's just such a simple win. I don't know who wouldn't do it. And getting madder and being like, oh, you know, you betrayed what you said or you know, you're going away from the arts. I mean, come on, none of this is art. I mean, Logan was great, but to say art, I don't know if I'd go that far, just a really well made, well constructed, well acted movie and a great send off to this character. And so I have that. Anything that comes after is just, it's like what James Cameron said to Arnold when he did Terminator 3, take the money and run. You know, it's such an easy thing. And you only have one, not to get too serious, but you have one shot here, right? We got one shot on planet Earth, regardless of what your religion or anything else. I think all of them pretty much say the same thing unless you're in the reincarnation, you're here once. That's the mindset I have. And so I try to wake up every day, put my best foot forward, try to be optimistic, try to get shit done for the day, look back on it and say, you know what? I produced some content I liked, I worked on my script, I hung out with my family, I played some video games, I caught some Pokemon, not too bad. Could be way worse, could be better, but we'll try to get to that point. And yeah, anyway, I don't know where I just went on this tangent for, but yeah, to answer your question, do you think Toby and Hugh, being the leads of Secret Wars is great? I'm indifferent, I wanna see what the movie looks like before I cast that stone, before I make that judgment call. Do I think it could be great to see Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, Toby McGuire's Spider-Man, Robert Donnie Jr. coming back as Iron Man? Of course, that would be a freaking nerdgasm of the highest degree. If they could reign in all these characters, all these actors, and if anybody can do it, it's Marvel slash Disney, they have all the money in the world. Regardless of how many flops they make this year, they got a lot of money in the bank. I mean, the Disney theme park alone is making billions of dollars in cold hard profit. They're gonna be fine. They'll prop up the other industries. That's kind of like Sony with their PlayStation for the longest time, all their other services, their movie industry, their TVs, everything was losing money with the PlayStation brand of Sony was making so much that it was holding up all the other ships. All right, rambling aside, this was a ton of fun. Thank you guys for joining me, listening to me ramble for an hour and almost 20 minutes. Hope you had some fun as well. All right, this will be on the podcast. So these live streams where I talk movies do go up on Spotify, do me a favor, go subscribe to the Spotify. You don't have to listen to it, but it's nice to get the numbers built or subscribe on Apple podcasts or Amazon or Google. I'm on all of those, Adam does movies. There's a live podcast that goes out Mondays and then these ones usually go up 8 a.m. in a day or two from when they air here. The podcast that's on Monday though, that goes up earlier than it does on YouTube. So you need a little bit of both. 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